Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-July/028382.html
is the thread. No surge of support.
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Posted today on python-ideas with the mistaken title os.path.argparse -
optional startdir argument by Wolfgang Maier (wolma). (He corrected in a
second post, but too late.) Juancarlo Añez pointed to pathlib.Path.resolve as
a better alternative. Path joins
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
Was this brought up on python-ideas? If so, what was the outcome?
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ipatrol ipatrol6...@yahoo.com added the comment:
Yes, but this seems to be rational particularly for emulating directory changes
without actually doing so. Since relative paths can use .. it may not always be
straightforward to do this. Applications include archivers, dependency
checkers,
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Would you bring this up on python-ideas? I am neither +1 nor -1 on your idea,
but I know that symmetry/consistency is not always a winning rationale. Not
every possibly useful one-liner should be a standard function.
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New submission from ipatrol ipatrol6...@yahoo.com:
Just an easy patch.
os.path.abspath is defined as os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),path),
but os.path.relpath also adds a start option. This creates an asymmetry where
getting the absolute path from a relative path and a directory
